A Black Rose

One Black Rose -

among roses, colorfully void of black, liken any other yet immortally fragrant Significantly mutant in empathy, brings with its presence, sincerity, consolation for lives lost to the darkened shadows of human ill tiding

Judges Comment; The presence of BLACK is revealed by its absence, appealing to the reader, who sees black roses in all roses. Cleverly done.

Restless Holidays -

-without Peace for all saddens our abused Earth, with reminders that we are all privileged tenants; allare to feel the wrath of environmental fury being invulnerably Omnipotent over what seems to be, we the feeble, less than grandeur, human life.